The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the most salient dimensions within that broader evolution was the rise of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America, once a Roman Catholic stronghold. In the early twenty-first century a high percentage of Latin America was Pentecostal, but there had also been significant growth of other denominations, including Methodists and Baptists. By 2019 an estimated 19 percent of the population of Latin America identified as evangelicals.
The Gospel in Latin America includes a broad range of studies in the history of Latin American evangelicalism from experts in the field. Five chapters address issues affecting the whole of Latin America, including the relationship of evangelicalism to demography and the rise of the political ideology of Dominionism. A further five concentrate on developments in specific nations, such as evangelical intellectual life in Brazil and the forging of evangelical identity in Argentina. Pentecostalism is included, but space is given to the full range of religious groups. Politics is not omitted, but the volume’s main concern is the core religious priorities of the movement associated with the spread of the gospel.
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Foreword, by David W. Bebbington
Introduction, by Ronald J. Morgan
Part One: General Studies
1. Looking South: Latin America and Charismatic Renewal in the United States and United Kingdom, 1945-1980, by John Maiden
2. The Theological Revolution in Latin American
Evangelicalism of the 1970s, by J. Daniel Salinas
3. The Buried Giant: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and Political Power in Latin America, by Virginia Garrard
4. Fertility and Faith: Latin America and the Limits of Evangelical Growth, by Philip Jenkins
5. The Historiography of Latin American Evangelicalism, by David C. Kirkpatrick
Part Two: Particular Lands
6. Evangelical Conceptions of History, Racial Difference,
and Social Change in Brazil, 1900-1940, by Pedro Feitoza
7. Indigenization and Believers’ Accounts of
Pentecostal Faith in Chile, 1910-1920, by Joseph Florez
8. The Creation of the Argentine Evangelical Identity, by Matt Marostica
9. Evangelicals in Peruvian Politics: From Impossible Theocracy to Political
Influencers, 1990-2019, by Véronique Lecaros
10. Brazilian Immigrants and Evangelicalism in
South Florida since 1990, by Matheus Reis
Afterword, by Ronald J. Morgan
Sobre el autor
David W. Bebbington is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He is the author of Baptists through the Centuries: A History of a Global People, Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought, The Evangelical Quadrilateral: Characterizing the British Gospel Movement, and The Evangelical Quadrilateral: The Denominational Mosaic of the British Gospel Movement.